Spy Wars: I am the Captain of the Military Police

[Command confirmed. Settlement of mission: Jinshanwei begins.]

In the center of the interface, data begins to scroll and refresh rapidly:

【Task Settlement Report】

Mission Number: ZQ-1937-11-JS

Mission Name: Jinshanwei Blocking Battle

任务要求: 拖延日军第三次大规模增援在金山卫登陆，策应华夏军队撤离上海（1937年11月5日-11月12日）

Mission Status: [Completed]

【Historical Trajectory Comparative Analysis】

Original history (no intervention):

Event: On November 5, 1937, the main force of the Japanese 10th Army successfully landed on the Jinshanwei line in Hangzhou Bay.

Consequences: The Chinese defenders suffered a fatal blow on their flanks and were completely shaken.

The command hastily ordered a retreat, which turned into a rout.

The pre-built Wufu Line (Suzhou-Fushan) and Xicheng Line (Wuxi-Jiangyin) national defense fortifications could not be effectively activated due to the chaos of the retreat.

About 30 troops suffered heavy losses under the pursuit of the Japanese army, with more than half of them killed, wounded or scattered. Their combat effectiveness dropped sharply, which directly led to the emptiness of Nanjing's defense forces.

Historical Impact Rating: Catastrophic

Post-intervention history (host intervention):

Event: The host deployed and activated the "Tsunami" surface-to-surface short-range missile system and "Hail" rocket artillery positions in advance, and implemented precise fire coverage on the Japanese landing fleet.

Dispatch system-enhanced special operations teams using modern individual equipment (sniper rifles, grenade launchers, RPGs, individual air defense missiles) to carry out harassment attacks.

The German Armored Training Corps was deployed to launch a counterattack in Songjiang.

Achievements: Successfully blocked the landing operation of the Japanese 10th Army for more than 7 days.

The main force of the Chinese army was able to withdraw westward in an orderly manner through the Beijing-Shanghai railway line controlled by Shang, and successfully retreated to the Wufu Line and Xicheng Line to establish positions and complete the initial defensive reorganization.

Intervention Outcome Rating: Strategic Victory

Preservation of Manpower: Expected ≥ 200,000 experienced soldiers to be retained.

Strategic Value: It provided crucial buffer time and manpower base for the upcoming Battle of Nanjing.

[Merit Points Settlement]

Basic Quest Reward: Merit Points +30,000 (guaranteed upon quest completion)

Completion Assessment: 80% (Successfully secured over 20 troops and achieved core strategic objectives)

Completion Bonus: Double the reward to 30,000x2 = 60,000.

200,000 experienced soldiers, reward x3 = 600,000.

Total Merit Points: +660,000

Note: The base reward of 30,000 points is already included in the bonus calculation, so the final reward is 660,000 points.

Historical debt repayment:

Merit points for this mission: +660,000

Pay off debts:

German Armored Training Corps: -500,000

Tsunami surface-to-surface short-range missile system (batch): -50,000

Grad rocket artillery system (batch): -50,000

Modernized individual equipment sets (in batches): -50,000

During the mission, system service functions were used, including camouflage and the deployment of Japanese equipment. Personnel: -30,000

Total debt: -680,000

Balance after liquidation: 660,000-680,000 = -20,000

(System prompt: The original debt was -650,000 merit points. After this settlement, the debt has been updated to -20,000 points.)

【Settlement completed.】

[Due to accumulated debt, interest will be added: 200 points per day.]

Looking at the eye-catching red number on the last line -20,000, and the 200 yuan interest per day! Zhou Zhengqing's facial muscles twitched violently.

The expected scene of being debt-free did not appear. The huge negative number was like a red-hot iron, burning his eyes so much that they twitched.

"Wait!" Zhou Zhengqing practically choked out a cry at the empty office, "System! Come out! Is there something wrong with the algorithm?!"

He stood up suddenly, put his hands on the desk, and leaned forward, as if trying to grasp the invisible system theory.

"I saved two hundred thousand people! Two hundred thousand lives! Two hundred thousand battle-hardened veterans! And it's only worth six hundred thousand points?! So a life is only worth a few tenths of a merit point?! What idiot set this price?!"

He was breathing heavily, his chest heaving violently.

The previous calmness and composure were gone, replaced by an extremely depressed and crazy mood.

Think about how you have devoted all your energy to this mission and taken huge risks to mobilize those weapons that are ahead of their time, which may cause uncontrollable historical ripples.

What happened? After finally completing a task that could be described as turning the tide, not only did I not pay off the debt, but the 7 yuan actually turned into 2 yuan!

And that damn interest! How dare loan sharks charge that much?

This feels like a worker who works hard for a year carrying bricks in the hope of paying off his mortgage, but at the end of the year he finds that his salary is just enough to pay the interest and the principal is almost not touched.

"An armored division costs five hundred thousand! A few missiles cost fifty thousand! Those rocket launchers and individual equipment cost another fifty thousand! You are robbing! This is usury!" Zhou Zhengqing couldn't help but pounded the table, making a dull sound.

The light from the desk lamp flickered, illuminating the distorted expression on his face. "I fought tooth and nail to change the course of history, and this is the end? I still owe you twenty thousand?!"

He sat back in his chair helplessly, wiped his face with his hands, and tried to calm down. But the huge sense of disparity and frustration repeatedly hit his rationality like a tide.

The sense of accomplishment of saving 200,000 people was instantly diluted by this damn "debt".

"System..." He cursed softly, with a strong sense of exhaustion and helplessness: "I'm 'saving the country by going into debt'!"

The office fell into silence again.

After a while...

[Fire off?]

Suddenly, a sentence like this popped up on the system.

Zhou Zhengqing was stunned for a moment, then asked in surprise: "System, are you alive?"

[This system also has a temper. Don't vent your inner pressure on me. Do you really care about owing merit points?]

Zhou Zhengqing was in a daze for a moment, then he grinned and said, "Hey, system, don't be like this. If I don't vent a little, it will seem too boring. I'm under a lot of psychological pressure.

A modern man came to experience the darkest time in modern history.

It would be fine if I just traveled through time and space and became a small person, just living a life of idleness and waiting for death, and doing a little bit of work would be enough.

Maybe even a whole harem or something.

As a result, you have set up such a big business for me, and I am under pressure too.

I want to do something, but I’m afraid of messing it up. I want to just lie down, but I feel a little unwilling. Sigh…”

[Energy usage has exceeded and needs to be replenished. The value is just to give you an intuitive understanding.]

"I guessed it a long time ago, but can you please remove that damn interest? It really makes me uncomfortable."

[As you wish, no interest will be added in the future. However, I would like to remind the host that you will no longer be able to use the Super Era Summoning on the next mission. Your energy is running low and you cannot overdraw it.]

"Okay, tell me, what's the next mission?"

After the system restarted, Zhou Zhengqing learned a lot about the system. Although he didn't ask, Zhou Zhengqing guessed that the energy required by the system should be obtained by changing history.

The next mission... Zhou Zhengqing silently guessed in his heart, it shouldn't be that...

Zhou Zhengqing's face turned pale as he thought of something.